Topic: Insanolord's International House of Staying Up Too Damn Long

[Stogi]

lol this is hilarious.

[NWR_insanolord]

I don't want to talk down on my RA because I've barely talked to him 5 minutes, but he doesn't seem with it enough for bribery to have ever crossed his mind. Like I said, alcohol is strictly prohibited in the dorms, and I know that that is definitely enforced. The plan certainly has its upsides, but it also has a lot of potential to backfire and if it backfires things can get very bad.

[Stratos]

Hey, I have the same standard, Insano. I refuse to buy alcohol for minors as a rule of thumb. I just don't think it is worth the risk of me getting in trouble to satisfy other people's personal desires. All it takes is one mistake like that and big trouble can come your way. I knew a guy that happened to so I just won't chance it.

[that Baby guy]

The sad part is that I didn't see anything beyond the mention of the RA when making my post.  I don't exactly condone the action of buying alcohol for minors, but I also don't condone long-term application of drinking age law that may-or-may-not be applicable.  I believe that legal drinking for 18-year-olds could prevent some of the binge drinking tragedies we have today, but there's too many politics that get in the way of a study like that, or it's relevance.

Regardless, yeah... You should bribe the RA, just because you never know when it might be useful to have a favor, but not about the alcohol, you don't want anything to mess with your status as "enrolled" in the school.

That said, a dorm room would probably be one of the safest places for a minor to have alcohol:  They live on the premises, have a supposedly responsible adult also living there that has met the resident in person, if there's a mess made, said person can leave without driving/clean themselves up/clean up the mess, and that's just skimming the idea.  To me, it seems like it could even be a good place to teach responsible drinking, but that's not how things go, it seems.

[Stratos]

To me, it seems like it could even be a good place to teach responsible drinking, but that's not how things go, it seems.

But we can't expose our children to alcohol at all! It would damage them! We need to keep it like a forbidden fruit tempting them so that when they turn 21 they go crazy!
/sarcasm

I do agree that it is odd that we allow 18-year-old people to go to war and die for us yet they can't share a beer with their friends, family and comrades. But them be the breaks.

[BlackNMild2k1]

It's funny how you can consider someone 18 to be an adult, but not adult enough.

[EasyCure]

adult in training wheels

[Stratos]

I had a psych prof who spoke of a problem he called 'perpetual adolescence'. Back in the day, you were a kid until a certain point and then you were an adult. Some African tribes had a tradition where the men steal their sons away from the mothers and after that point the boy lives with the men and does not live with their mothers.

Look at how the progression is now:
Kid
15 or 16 - get drivers permit
18 - can sign contracts and smoke
21 - can drink
25 (in many places) - you can rent a car

We've stretched out this idea of adolescence to the point where there are people 25-35 who have not fully 'grown up'. We are losing the clearly defined transition point.

[EasyCure]

I had a psych prof who spoke of a problem he called 'perpetual adolescence'. Back in the day, you were a kid until a certain point and then you were an adult. Some African tribes had a tradition where...

I read up to that part and remembered how I happened to catch Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls on TBS a few weeks ago, and my immidiate thought was "SHIKAKA!"

as you were saying?

[NWR_insanolord]

I'm losing my touch. I finished my first college course yesterday (1 down, 39 to go) and even with that excitement I couldn't manage to stay up all night. I suppose it's for the best, because a fire alarm went off earlier this afternoon and that probably would have woke me up, but still, I'm losing it.

[NWR_insanolord]

<This is a double post but I'm doing it anyway because it's nearly completely unrelated to the previous post.>

I just learned that I'm older than my R.A., who isn't 21 yet. As soon as I learned that Stogi's plan came back into my head.

[BlackNMild2k1]

It's 5:43am and I need to go back to sleep.

I fell asleep on and off while trying to watch Mutant Chronicles on Netflix, starting around 1am.
I was wide awake by the last 40 minutes of the movie. Then I woke my girl up so that she could ummm get some sleep. Then I finished watching An American Werewolf in Paris (last 40 minutes). That was over 1.5hrs ago.

But now I'm wide awake, there is nothing on TV, and I don't feel like rewatching Mutant Chronicles right now. Back to looking for TV shows on Instant watch I guess.

edit: NOooOOoOOooo Netflix is down temporarily!!!

[EasyCure]

It's 5:43am and I need to go back to sleep.

I fell asleep on and off while trying to watch Mutant Chronicles on Netflix, starting around 1am.
I was wide awake by the last 40 minutes of the movie. Then I woke my girl up so that she could ummm get some sleep. Then I finished watching An American Werewolf in Paris (last 40 minutes). That was over 1.5hrs ago.

But now I'm wide awake, there is nothing on TV, and I don't feel like rewatching Mutant Chronicles right now. Back to looking for TV shows on Instant watch I guess.

edit: NOooOOoOOooo Netflix is down temporarily!!!

It's 9:04am here and I've been at work for 3 hours..

8 more to go!! YEAH!